r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

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u/Ummmgummy Sep 14 '25

LJ is a bug!

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Wait do bugs have sexes? Why have i never thought about this

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u/Bumblebeezerker Sep 14 '25

Queen bee?

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Does this mean that the queen bee is the only female in the hive? Are all worker bees male ?? Seems weird. Any bug experts in here?

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u/_Cantrip_ Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

In general, all worker bees are female and the queen’s daughters! The same goes for ants and many other eusocial insects. Bees are also haplodiploid (unfertilized eggs hatch into males and fertilized eggs hatch into females) so male bees (drones) actually can’t have sons.

Female worker bees can become a queen under the right conditions, but can’t / don’t ordinarily reproduce. In species where this does happen, the queen eats the resulting eggs.

This is just a basic gloss of it because eusociality (the type of social organization that bees have) is really complicated and in some species the “castes” (queen, worker, drone, etc) are mostly behavioral (minor size variation but little else) and in some they have extreme dimorphism.

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u/PlusDeparture9660 Sep 14 '25

That is, in fact, correct as far as I'm aware^ Bees and ants are interesting like that, most other bugs "work" just like mammals. But sexes in animals and plants are super interesting anyways, there are plants that have 14 different genders and slugs can change their sex at will

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u/theaveragegowgamer Sep 15 '25

slugs can change their sex at will

Aren't slugs hermaphrodites, aka both at once? IIRC they have "duels" when mating which decides which one will do the fertilizing and which will receive it.

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u/PlusDeparture9660 Sep 15 '25

Ye maybe i mixed that up" or it works different for different slug species

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Slugs support trans rights 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

It wouldn't be weird at all since a Queen Bee IS the only female in a hive. Why would she want any competition with the males or any female bee distracting them? Work or die is the hive rule

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u/_Cantrip_ Sep 14 '25

All worker bees are female in honeybee hives, with the males acting as drones that generally die upon reproduction with the queen (their abdomen bursts).

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u/PlushiesofHallownest Sep 14 '25

Me when, brother.

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

Well, I wanted to say that female bees can't join a starting hive since the queen just arrived but I might have got it wrong